laboratories

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Although it is currently used mostly in laboratories and research environments, the field is steadily moving toward real-world applications across a range of industries.

From Science Daily • May 4, 2026

A university has been fined £280,000 after two members of staff developed asthma after being exposed to animal allergens while working in laboratories.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Microplastics scientists are finding the tiny particles everywhere, even in their own research laboratories.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

The idea of orbital solar-power systems has been around for decades, discussed in the pages of an Isaac Asimov science fiction story published in 1941 and explored at universities and government research laboratories.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

This hasn’t stopped some believers—physicists included—from picketing high-energy laboratories like Fermilab; they believe that a high-energy collision could cause a spontaneous collapse of the vacuum.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife